Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a tiny market community and also civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to create the district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and also various other sites has actually exposed evidence of negotiation on capital since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have been located on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village days from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the village belonged to the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the village gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on this day came to be a "community" by typical interpretation. Both earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster as well as your home of York, which led to the fatality of King Richard III. Following the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège passed through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently commemorated with a floor plaque before the war memorial in the community square.